Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor

The Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor discovers both types of Solaris Virtualization: Zones and Logical Domains on a Solaris operating system.

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

SunSparcVirtualizationSensor

Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor discovery scope

The sensor discovers whether the guest domains are active, and then retrieves all information about the guest domains.

The sensor also discovers whether the non-global zones are running, and then retrieves all information about the non-global zones.

Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor dependency

The sensor depends on the Solaris computer system sensor, which runs just before the Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor.

The Solaris computer system sensor discovers the Solaris system with detailed information and passes the SunSPARCUnitaryComputerSystem object to the Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor.

For this SunSPARCUnitaryComputerSystem object, the Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor:

discovers all available guest domains and non-global zones, and
for each of these creates the shallow SunSPARCUnitaryComputerSystem object.

The Sun Sparc Virtualization sensor can be run on Solaris systems that are of virtualization type:

Table 1. Solaris virtualization type discovery
Solaris Virtualization Type	Discovers
Global zone	Global zones and non-global zones
Non-Global zone*	Non-global zone
Control Domain	Control Domain (with name primary) and guest domains
Guest Domain*	Guest domain

Note: *To retrieve operating system details for the 'non-global zones' and 'guest domains', you must add the IP address of the zones and domains to the discovery scope and rerun the Solaris computer system sensor.